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Unpopular opinion, but one might argue YouTube was a better place when people did videos out of passion and not to become an "influencer" and get money.

• mardifoufs 5y ago
  That's still the case though. YT is probably the only platform where you can be successful doing very niche without having to sell out or churn out influencer tier content for outreach. The revenue stream is embedded, the audience is huge and channels can be pretty well siloed (as opposed to say, reddit where you can have a niche community either get easily overrun, crossposted etc). Actually the only time I've had "influencer/Drama" type of content was when I chose to watch it, otherwise YouTube is still pretty good at not pushing content you just don't watch at all to your recommendations (Even though the recommendation system is overall awful and I can't believe an army of engineers have actually been working on it for a decade, but I digress)
• sofixa 5y ago
  Most people don't make (enough) money from YouTube though, and to get to the point where they could, they spend hundreds of hours of their time. I'd say that's passion and i see nothing wrong with getting rewarded for doing something you like and other people enjoy watching.
  • mbirth 5y ago
    > and to get to the point where they could, they spend hundreds of hours of their time However, this often results in videos that are unnecessary bloated to fulfil the requirements to place more ads, deceptive/misleading titles, or 10-minute-videos about something that could be explained in 30 seconds.